Shadow Child Audiobook

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• “Narrator Christine Lakin draws listeners into this family drama…Her narration is full of feelings that reflect the precarious nature of immigrant identity in the 1940s. The contemporary themes in this story further engage listeners with the hardships of Lillie, the twins’ mother. Lakin is a talented performer whose versatility allows her to portray grandmothers and children with equal vigor.”

  — AudioFile

• "[An] impressive novel with a fierce velocity….The sisters…are vividly realized as they come to terms with their mother, the traumas of what has divided them, and a generation of mysteries.”

  — National Book Review

• “Blends historical fiction and mystery into a haunting examination of identity and family in this perfect book club choice.”

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• “Gripping…Bolstered by its convincing historical detail and its satisfying characters…Rizzuto’s ruminative portrait of a ravaged family on the precipice of forgiveness leaves a lasting impression.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Rahna Reiko Rizzuto probes, with great compassion, the heart-wrenching complexities of identity, memory, history, and survival.”

  — Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being

• “A beautifully woven historical saga wrapped in a page-turning mystery, Shadow Child explores time, memory, and identity…This is a stunning story of sisterhood and survival, of healing and forgiveness, and how we find our true selves in each other.”

  — Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief

• “A beautiful, unafraid novel, a story of how history shapes and fractures identity in family…Part historical, part mystery, part family love story that is on every page masterfully wrought.”

  — Victoria Redel, author of Before Everything

• In this gripping tale of two sisters, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto probes, with great compassion, the heart-wrenching complexities of identity, memory, history, and survival.

  — Ruth Ozeki, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted & bestselling author of A Tale for the Time Beingp.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 15.0px Helvetica}span.s1 {font-kerning: none}

• Rahna Reiko Rizzuto's Shadow Child is a beautiful, unafraid novel, a story of how history shapes and fractures identity in family. What is a self when one is a twin? What is a national identity in a time of war? How are we unknowingly shaped by the traumas of our parents? Essential questions are at the heart of Shadow Child, a novel that defies categorization- part historical, part mystery, part family love story-that is on every page masterfully wrought.

  — Victoria Redel, award-winning author of Before Everything

• The powerful generational inheritance of secrets, lies, guilt, remorse, and what we do in the name of love is at the heart of this wise, richly layered novel about family and forgiveness.

  — Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Devotion and Hourglass

• Gripping...Bolstered by its convincing historical detail and its satisfying characters...Rizzuto's ruminative portrait of a ravaged family on the precipice of forgiveness leaves a lasting impression.

  — p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica}span.s1 {font-kerning: none}Publishers Weekly

• National Book Critics Circle finalist Rizzuto blends historical fiction and mystery into a haunting examination of identity and family in this perfect book club choice.

  — Library Journal (Starred Review)

• [An] impressive novel with a fierce velocity....The sisters, deeply linked and then estranged, are vividly realized as they come to terms with their mother, the traumas of what has divided them, and a generation of mysteries.

  — The National Book Review

• A good read...Suspense well-paced.

  — The International Examiner

• Beautifully written... highly entertaining... Rahna Reiko Rizzuto takes the reader to the dangerous landscape of Hawaii, to the Japanese internment camps during World War and the bombing of Hiroshima and ends the story in the streets of New York.

  — The Washington Book Review